Reflecting Back on Head Coaches...

Flugel

Thanks for the feedback folks!

I think the most likable coach/personality was Sam Rutigliano.

But my 2 faves in terms of success were Marty Schottenheimer and Bill Belichick. Haters are gonna hate but if you look at everything here - 2 first time Head Coaches restored us to competitive football worth watching enough to make following this team fun from September to January.

Again, Bill Belichick was the Head Coach hire I was most excited about in my lifetime as a fan. However, Marty beat Pittsburgh at least once a year, finished first or made the playoffs all 4 years, had the best winning percentage, and won playoff games.

Bill Belichick took over a bigger dumpster fire than Marty did and improved us up to a playoff caliber team. That said, he only made the playoffs once in 5 years with an owner like Art, not to be confused with Robert Craft. The 1 time he did make the playoffs, Pittsburgh swept us in the regular season and beat us by about 20 points in the post season (making BB 0-3 vrs Pitt on his best team). His records weren't as good as Marty's while none of his OC's compared to Lindy Infante. Gotta be honest, Marty accomplished more here for the same exact owner.

calfoxwc

bill butticheat was an arrogant punk as a head coach his first time around. He flubbed and flopped with the Browns,

then had to grow up into more of a human being, at least a bit, and got a hold of a team that was accruing talent

before he got there and got lucky with his qb. Enough already with butticheat. He sucked while he was the "coach" of

the Browns.

calfoxwc

note: this is asswipe buttichek AFTER he flubbed with the Browns

calfoxwc

Buttchek can't figure out how to hold a mic.

calfoxwc

Buttichek's team couldn't muster one point vs the Bills...

ohhh, pouty loser

Orion

BB wasn't allowed to be offensive coordinator in New England.

Kraft knew what he wanted his HC to do and Bill had to do it......or he coulda' gone to the Jets if he'd like.

Kraft set Bill up to be successful. While the top of OUR pyramid is a marketing manager.

BrownsfaninPa

Those were the good ol days when the BROWNS were a dominating force to deal with. Sam's years with the Kardiac Kids era with Brian Sipe , Greg and Mike Pruitt, Ozzie, and on defense we had Clay Matthews, Lyle Alzado, Etc.

Marty's era was even better, rookie Bernie Kosar , Kevin Mack, Ernest Byner, and veteran ozzie, and on defense we had mean and nasty Eddie Johnson, Bob Golic, Mike Johnson, Clay Matthews, Hanford Dixon, and Frank Minnifield who created our now infamous end zone fan club, The DAWG POUND.

I wished the Browns would have stayed in Cleveland, there was no telling how many Super Bowls this franchise could have gone to if it was given a chance.

Bob806

Marty definitely outsmarted himself in the playoffs, but he did bring a plan and a winning culture.

"The Drive" game, Marty made 3 huge coaching errors: 1) taking Dave Puzzoli off the field after he sacked Elway 2) the prevent on 3rd & 19 3) handing to Fontenot on 3rd & 2 in OT.

In Marty's defense, we never really had a great pass rush to go along with a fantastic secondary.

Belichick,he definitely learned from his mistakes here. Too bad Art did what he did, because BB seemed to have it going in the right direction in 1994.

Tour2ma

Sam was our Bum Phillips... the HC who could inspire average players to produce at levels far exceeding their ability. Both were HCs that players loved and for whom they played like they would rather die than than disappoint. Pretty rare breed... I can only think of a couple others including George Allen and Marv Levy... and maybe Blanton Collier. Collier wasn't "visible" enough to know for sure, but "players' coach" was how he was billed when he replaced Paul Brown.

Why Marty would go into a shell in big games with a lead will always be a mystery. That said, I wonder how many times he did so and ended up with a win that there were that went unnoticed since "we won". I do know that in one game when he did not have that option we came within a fumble of one of the great comebacks in playoff history.

And then there's Bill... the GOAT that has set himself atop the HC field in my book... and many others... and he got his start with us. Yup... among other moves I cursed the labeling of our beloved QB as having "diminished talents" at the time, but one of us proved to be right and it was not me.

The Gipper

@tour2ma said:

Sam was our Bum Phillips... the HC who could inspire average players to produce at levels far exceeding their ability. Both were HCs that players loved and for whom they played like they would rather die than than disappoint. Pretty rare breed... I can only think of a couple others including George Allen and Marv Levy... and maybe Blanton Collier. Collier wasn't "visible" enough to know for sure, but "players' coach" was how he was billed when he replaced Paul Brown.

Why Marty would go into a shell in big games with a lead will always be a mystery. That said, I wonder how many times he did so and ended up with a win that there were that went unnoticed since "we won". I do know that in one game when he did not have that option we came within a fumble of one of the great comebacks in playoff history.

And then there's Bill... the GOAT that has set himself atop the HC field in my book... and many others... and he got his start with us. Yup... among other moves I cursed the labeling of our beloved QB as having "diminished talents" at the time, but one of us proved to be right and it was not me.

Bill? The GOAT of Browns HCs? What kind of a statement is that? Ever hear of a guy named Paul Brown?

domcucch1994

Should have kept Bellicheck losers!
Also shouldn't have moved to shitville Baltimore..

But it's all water near a bridge am I right?

nickers

Bill Belichick is still the same dumb mother fucker he was when he was here..,. Having Tom Brady covers for a lot of mistakes...